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Sep 19, 1931 – Feb 27, 1932
Manchuria on China’s eastern seaboard, was attacked by Japan in 1931.
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After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the German government announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations.The ostensible reason was the refusal of the Western powers to acquiesce in Germany's demands for military parity.
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The Japanese delegation withdrew from the League of Nations Assembly after the assembly had adopted a report blaming Japan for events in Manchuria. (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1933/02/24/Japan-stuns-world-withdraws-from-league/2231840119817/)
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The US made a series of laws designed to prevent the United States from being brought in a foreign war by clearly stating the terms of U.S. neutrality.
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July 7, 1937 – September 2, 1945
The war was because of a long Japanese imperialist policy to expand its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves, food, and labor.
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German troops barged into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich.
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It was a settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland.
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German Wehrmacht moved into the remainder of Czechoslovakia. From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
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Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years.
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Sep 1, 1939 – Oct 6, 1939
1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory.
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May 10, 1940 – Jun 25, 1940
Something that happened during the 46 days is German forces defeated Allied forces and conquered France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, bringing land operations on the Western Front to an end for a couple days.
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Germans begin a series of bombing raids against Great Britain, as the Battle of Britain, which will last three and a half months.
(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-britain-begins)